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Tonight we have an "Adventure" of the week! - We're going into Milan for a concert.Argerich and Kremer. The program is MieczysÅ‚aw Weinberg Sonata 3 op. 126 violin solo, Sonata n. 5 op. 53 for violin and piano, plus Beethoven : Sonata in G major op. 30 and Sonata in G major op. 96.AND....we'll meet Sinophillia

That's great Cas. Nice to know you'll meet Sinophillia!

_________________________SoundCloud | YoutubeSelf-taught since Dec2009"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

Finally called the piano tech after not having my brand new piano tuned since I got it 6 months ago. So apparently it's wayyyyy flat. He did send me a reminder card to get it tuned sooner "because brand new pianos should be at least tuned 4x in its first year" I obviously didn't quite get that into my head. Oops! Now I know why. This is my AOTW because after he's done tuning my piano I'm planning to practice for hours Oh and also, I managed to practice everyday this week after getting home from work even when it's 11pm. I'd neglected my digital piano for a while there....I bet it was so sad collecting dust in the corner. Now it's happy again

Six months is a long time!Brewer is so completely picky about tuning that we had the tuner over 3-4 times/year for the Vogel. The tuning on the new piano gets worse by the hour. I'm not sure how long we'll be able to stand it!

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Tonight we have an "Adventure" of the week! - We're going into Milan for a concert.Argerich and Kremer. The program is MieczysÅ‚aw Weinberg Sonata 3 op. 126 violin solo, Sonata n. 5 op. 53 for violin and piano, plus Beethoven : Sonata in G major op. 30 and Sonata in G major op. 96.AND....we'll meet Sinophillia

And how cool was that?

My beloved Martha, the wonderful Gidon Kremer, Cheryl & Mr. casinitaly all in one night! What a treat!

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Diana & Wally - Yamaha W110BWMartha Argerich... is an incarnation of the artistic metaphor of the "eternal feminine" that draws us upward. (Sergio Sablich)http://soundcloud.com/sinophilia

My first AOTW post: Learned to play "The Sick Doll" (Tchaikovsky Op 39 No 7).

Started playing two months ago and enjoy every minute of it.

I played organ for a couple of years when I was a kid (three years or so, stopped when I was 10) but was a bad student (Not really practicing, no focus, probably started to early) so I never got anywhere.

My first AOTW post: Learned to play "The Sick Doll" (Tchaikovsky Op 39 No 7).

Started playing two months ago and enjoy every minute of it.

I played organ for a couple of years when I was a kid (three years or so, stopped when I was 10) but was a bad student (Not really practicing, no focus, probably started to early) so I never got anywhere.

Congrats wimpiano! Getting that 1st song/piece under your belt is always so satisfying.

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Happy to have access to the forum. I was not able to access for a while today. Happy practice and happy thanksgiving! I have guests this week and will be super busy for non-piano activities.

Sure I will do. I won't miss the chance to play it for my Thanksgiving guests . Who cares if they got indigestion. Anyway I'm planning to play the Mazurka I'm working on. It will be a good practice for my local piano club performance opportunity on 12/14. I will play some Christmas music and Japanese Country music called Enka since its a gathering of Expats. Like its American counterparts, they are all sad songs describing love lost and men & women at the end of luck. I have my niece from Japan until 12/8. So she has to endure an hour and 15 min each day having to listen to my practice for piano and violin respectively. My violin is quite bad. I saw my friends trying to conceal a laughter!

Lots of progress with my Waltz in A minor this week.I've gotten the fingering down, working on improving the dynamics and adding trills now. So excited to be learning my 2nd Chopin =)

Burgmuller Op 100 No 9 is going quite smoothly. It was easy enough to learn in 5 days time on my own, I presented it to my teacher yesterday and got some good feedback. Minor improvement needed on dynamics but otherwise, I'm glad with what I've been able to accomplish with this piece by myself.

I also started learning Cristofori's dream this week and it's kind of cool how several months ago, I found this piece hard to learn cause I was terrible at reading notes. I decided to try again this time around. Reading notes seem to come a little easier now so it's not as frustrating trying to learn a new piece.

And thanks earlofmar for inspiring me to relearn Clementi's Sonatina in C major Op 36. No 1. I learned the first movement several months ago and totally enjoyed playing it. My goal now is to learn the 2nd and 3rd movements to complete the sonatina.

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Tonight we have an "Adventure" of the week! - We're going into Milan for a concert.AND....we'll meet Sinophillia

And how cool was that? My beloved Martha, the wonderful Gidon Kremer, Cheryl & Mr. casinitaly all in one night! What a treat!

What a fun evening! I think it's marvellous that some of us from PW are getting to meet in “real life.”

Originally Posted By: FarmGirl

Originally Posted By: FarmGirl

Happy to have access to the forum. I was not able to access for a while today. Happy practice and happy thanksgiving! I have guests this week and will be super busy for non-piano activities.

Sure I will do. I won't miss the chance to play it for my Thanksgiving guests . Who cares if they got indigestion. Anyway I'm planning to play the Mazurka I'm working on. It will be a good practice for my local piano club performance opportunity on 12/14. I will play some Christmas music and Japanese Country music called Enka since its a gathering of Expats. Like its American counterparts, they are all sad songs describing love lost and men & women at the end of luck. I have my niece from Japan until 12/8. So she has to endure an hour and 15 min each day having to listen to my practice for piano and violin respectively. My violin is quite bad. I saw my friends trying to conceal a laughter!

Its sounds like you have a very musical Thanksgiving planned, indeed, FarmGirl! You could always turn the tables and request that some of your guests play … If they know enough to laugh at your violin playing, perhaps they should be performing themselves.

I’d love to hear some of the Enka music, if you can share a recording.

Originally Posted By: ElleC

It's amazing what 1 full week of daily practicing could do!

Lots of progress with my Waltz in A minor this week.I've gotten the fingering down, working on improving the dynamics and adding trills now. So excited to be learning my 2nd Chopin =)

Oh, Elle, I wish I could say the same! I’ve been very bad about practicing this week. And I have so much to do yet to get that same waltz in hand. *sigh* Well. Enough of that. I will take your comments as inspiration and encouragement to put in the necessary bench time. I should know by now that the rewards are great!

Aww congrats on your new bundle Wimpiano! Exciting times for you and your family indeed.

piano_deb don't get discouraged. It's really hard to put the time in especially with a busy schedule and lord knows we all have "adult" stuff we have to deal with. But what Carlos_CC mentioned before, even 15 minutes can make a big difference. And actually most the times when I practice at night, I usually try to practice only for that long but end up practicing for an hour without even realizing it's already midnight and past my bedtime!

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I went on two trips to the hospital because I knew they had a grand piano in the lobby for anyone to play. The first day I was really nervous about practicing in such a large open space in front of strangers such that I played really softly, almost too timid. But never-the-less a woman stopped and watched me when I was actually playing a piece all the way through. She was smiling and approached me and we talked for a moment and she complimented me.

The next day I did the same thing and a woman pushing her elderly relative in a wheel chair also stopped and told me "Keep Playing" it's kind of hard because I was just practicing and reading new stuff, but I guess I could like, keep some songs on loop and play them over and over until they are more natural. Create better endurance.

My AOTW - Today I received a phone call from the TV producer: Next Thursday I'll meet him, the writer and their TV crew, to talk about the episode they want to do with me. This is the first step of this new adventure. Wish me luck!

_________________________SoundCloud | YoutubeSelf-taught since Dec2009"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

I had lesson today. I was complaining because I feel I am sooo slow in learning my pieces (ok, maybe I'm trying to work on too many things at the same time), and my teacher asked why I did not consider how much I'm improving. She made my day!

Perhaps it's just turning one year on piano I was given a present, or perhaps its a fantastically difficult Tausig exercise I have been learning but they are not the same fingers I had last week that's for sure.

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If this life is a simulation can I not be in the easy version where Bach was a drummer

Torquenale - I feel the same way all the time, and sometimes I whine to my teacher about it too. Then, wham, a few weeks go by and it all seems to fall into place. One of the things she has taught me is that if what you are doing in practice doesn't seem to be working....do something different. Well, duh, you'd think I could have figured that out on my own, but that's what we pay teachers for.

Earlofmar - Wow, new fingers? I could use a few. What was the exercise you worked on?

My AOTW: Had a pretty good lesson today. Played the Puccini aria through twice for her, much better the second time, and got a "that was beautiful and the best I've ever heard you play." Then I played a lead sheet tune with a improvised left hand in a jazz waltz pattern. A few weeks ago getting hold of that pattern was completely eluding me, so quite an improvement. I also played my weekly "throw away," which was an arrangement of Bach out of the Faber Christmastime for All book others have talked about. I surprised her (and myself) by being able to pretty much sight read this at a slow but steady tempo. And I have finally got the G minor section of the Mozart in my fingers and can work on the one final remaining section. It is sounding quite musical, and a big improvement on just a few weeks back, so I'm pleased with the progress. Last, I have a new assignment...Fountain in the Rain by William Gillock, which she assures me looks harder than it is...we shall see about that.